• National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

    National Health Investors released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, and it made significant strides in 2025. The REIT completed $392.4 million in investments, marking its most active year yet. Its SHOP portfolio expanded from 15 communities to 26 during the year, and has kept the momentum going into 2026. So far this year, the... Read More »
  • American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

    American Healthcare REIT expanded both its Integrated Senior Health Campus and SHOP segments in 2025, completing $950 million of new investments across the two. The ISHC portfolio grew from 126 properties at year-end 2024 to 147 by the end of 2025, while the SHOP segment increased from 70 to 83 properties.  Same-community ISHC properties... Read More »
  • Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

    Town Lane and Arcole made the fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Town Lane is a real estate investment firm, and Arcole is a recently launched seniors housing platform that partners with operators to acquire newer-vintage, full-continuum communities in high-growth markets. The joint venture will... Read More »
  • NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

    Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services,... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »
Diversified Healthcare Trust Transitioning 66 Communities

Diversified Healthcare Trust Transitioning 66 Communities

A few months ago, Diversified Healthcare Trust announced it would transition 108 of 228 senior living communities managed by Five Star Senior Living to new operators. It has now found three operators to take over management of 66 of them with 4,084 units, or 62 units per community.  The 108 communities have approximately 7,500 units, while the remaining 120 communities have about 18,000 units. So, the communities being transitioned to new operators are much smaller (average of 69 units) compared to the retained communities, with an average of 150 units.  Naperville, Illinois-based Charter Senior Living will be taking over management of communities in... Read More »
Care Investment Trust Partners With Phoenix Senior Living

Care Investment Trust Partners With Phoenix Senior Living

Care Investment Trust joint ventured with Phoenix Senior Living for the second time this year, acquiring a 68-unit assisted living/memory care community in Albany, Georgia. Built in 1999, the community was formerly owned by the Phoebe Putney Health System, a not-for-profit health network in southwest Georgia. It now brings Phoenix’s operating portfolio to eight communities across the Southeast, not including three projects currently under construction. Jay Miele and Brady Stern of Hammond Hanlon Camp LLC advised Phoebe Putney on the transaction. Earlier this year, Care Investment Trust and Phoenix Senior Living partnered to acquired a 64-unit memory care community in Fayetteville, Georgia... Read More »
Two Southeast Sales from Senior Living Investment Brokerage

Two Southeast Sales from Senior Living Investment Brokerage

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage showed his strength in the Southeast, closing two transactions in Georgia and Florida. He first helped a partnership exit the seniors housing industry with the sale of their 64-unit memory care community in Fayetteville, Georgia (20 miles south of Atlanta). The partnership hadn’t been together long (the facility only opened in 2013), but a death within it affected the lease-up process and prompted the sale. The purpose-built community is currently 81% occupied, and working towards stabilization. Since it’s still in lease-up, it was offered at a slightly discounted price per unit, selling for $11 million, or $171,875 per unit. New... Read More »